Word: fleetness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Prosecuting Attorney. Trouble seasoned him. When North Vietnamese PT boats twice attacked Seventh Fleet destroyers in the Gulf of Tonkin last summer, there was nothing impetuous about Johnson's response. Like a prosecuting attorney, he kept asking his aides: "Are you sure we were attacked? How come they were such bad shots...
...oasis of expensive Stetson hats and tailored twill trousers, herds of sleek Herefords, Angora goats and blooded horses, a fleet of Lincolns and a landing strip with a gleaming private plane, meals of venison steak, homemade bread and pecan pies, a heated pool and Muzak piping in The Yellow...
...down telephone and power poles to convert the main street into a landing pad for rescue helicopters. In the Indian reservation towns of Hoopa and Willow Creek, the whole population fled to the high-ground school auditorium. In other towns, the rampaging waters were too swift even for the fleet est, and people died in rivers that once were streets...
...Savannah. Owen Oakley ('37) is director of preliminary ship design for the U.S. Navy's Bureau of Ships, where John Nachtsheim ('47) is chief naval architect. J. J. Henry ('35) heads his own top firm, lately designed the naval icebreaker Glacier, and helped develop a fleet of ships to take liquefied gas from Algeria to London and from the Persian Gulf to Tokyo. Several Webb alumni, including John Parkinson ('29), NASA's chief of aerodynamic programs, have switched from designing ships to exploring space...
...this maelstrom of effort, the line that is flying away with most of the business is Pacific Southwest, which is tiny compared with its major competitors but still ranks as the largest intrastate airline in the U.S. In its fleet of six Electras, P.S.A. in 1964 carried more than 1,500,000 passengers, 50.4% of all those flying the route v. Western's 27.8%, United's 18.1% and TWA's 3.7%. Under its aggressive president, ex-R.A.F. Pilot J. Floyd Andrews, 48, P.S.A. early took a firm lead on the route by pioneering low-cost commuter...